Oh wow, at first I thought this was another ASCII-art to image generator like ditaa[1]. This is much more practical.
I'll give this a shot next time I might have otherwise reached for Graphviz or Lucidchart.
I'll give this a shot next time I might have otherwise reached for Graphviz or Lucidchart.
By which I mean it looks like a well annotated ASCII text file rather than a raw markup language in text.
Ditta looks like at least has the potential for that. If github had the ability render Ditaa it would be brilliant.
I think the main problem is that you still need the right tooling to draw it efficiently and Markdown doesn’t really require that. Eg editor plugins for reflow and drawing/resizing boxes.